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COPYRIGHTED, 1889, BY W. G. HARTWELL. 



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2. The assessed valuation of real and personal prop- 
erty is $147,168,115, a gain of over forty-nine millions of 
dollars since 1885. There has been recorded in the Erie 
County Clerk's OfKce, during the last year, 10,454 deeds. 

3. The banking capital is six million dollars, with 
loans and discounts amounting to $21,702,000. 

4. The city has 50 public school buildings, costing 
$1,179,685, and 30,000 pupils enrolled. One school con- 
tains2.5oo pupils, being the largest in the United States. 

5. The number of railro.ids centering in Buffalo is 
25. The railroart-yard facilities are the greatest in the 
world. The depots of nearly 25,000 miles of road are 
concentrated in the city. 

6. There are 33 grain elevators, with storage capacity 
of 13,585,000 bushels. 

7. The number of bushels of grain imported in 18SS, 
by lake, was 99,448,150. 

8. Number of boats cleared by Erie Canal, Buffalo 
to New York, yearly average last ten years, 7,170. 

g. Value of articles carried by Erie Canal, Buffalo to 
New York, yearly average last three years, $39,583,042. 

10. It is the second largest cattle sales market in the 
country, and largest sheep market in the world. The 
receipts of live stock, 1888, were 6,525,613 — average 
weekly sales over $2,000,000. 

11. The custom receipts for the year 1888 amounted 

12. The coal trade very extensive, receipts in 188S, 
over 5,000,000 tons. There is $5,000,000 invested in ter- 
minal facilities for this interest. 

13. Lumber, heavy planing mill and distributing 
trade, receipts for 188S, 4oo,ooo,o(x) feet. 

14. The city has now si.\ty miles of Asphalt pave- 
ment down, and ten miles additional contracted for, 
having more miles of these peerless pavements than any 
other city in the United States. 

15. The number of miles of street railroad is si.\ty- 
five, besides a steam belt railway surrounding the city 
C hfteen miles in length ), for suburban traffic. 

16. Has unsurpassed system of water-works, with 
yearly pumping capacity of 15,545,365,450 gallons— aver- 
age per day, 42,590,042 gallons. 

17. Number miles water pipe in the city (mains), 252, 
with 2,286 hydrants for fire purposes. 

18. Its area of parks and public places is 500 acres — 
approaches, 120 acres. Embraced in the main park is 



a beautiful lake, covering 46^^ acres ; also, a jiew park, 
is contemplated on the shore of Lake Erie, of 500 acres. 

19. HulTalo International Fair building is the largest 
m the world, the association having invested $600,000, 
The daily attendance at the Buffalo E.\posiiion, 1888, 
was larger than that of any Exposition ever held in 
America, the Centennial alone excepted. 

20. The- new lire-proof hotel "Iroquois" costing 
$800,000; the City and County Hall, costing $1,450,010 ; 
Music H.all, $262,000; the Library building, $128,000, 
are a few among Buffalo's numerous beautiful public 
buildings. There is also about to be erected, by the 
Erie County Savings Bank, a new building, to cost 
$1,000,000, and a magnificent new Post-office building 
by the U. S. Government. 

It would not be possible, in this brief form, to describe 

many of Buff>ilo's numerous attractions, or to allude, 

except in the most general way, to its natural resources, 

its wonderful growth, development and improvement. 

REAL ESTATE. 

There is no better or more reliable indication of a 
city's prosperity than the increase in value of its real 
estate. While many fortunes have been made and large 
returns almost invariably realized from investments in 
this species of property, values arc steadily advancing, 
and opportunities for making money are better at pres- 
ent than at any previous time in the city's history. 

We have on our books property in all pans of the city. 
Can accommodate those desiring to purchase, whether 
one vacant lot, a house and lot, business property, or 
suburban acres. Those unacquainted with the city, in 
making investments, must necessarily rely upon the 
honesty and good judgment of some one who has made 
real estate a study and a business, and thoroughly knows 
the city. 

The undersigned can suhst.antiate the claim th.at he is 
entitled to the confidence of those desiring the services 
of an experienced, honest, prompt and successful real- 
estate dealer, t)y referring to prominent business men, 
here and elsewhere, and pointing out numerous trans- 
actions brought to a successful issue through his efforts. 

Information cheerfully furnished. Correspondence 
solicited. 

W. G. HARTWELL, 

REAL ESTATE, 

35 WHITE BUILDING, 298 MAIN ST., 

BU FFALO, N. Y. 



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HILE many of the cities of the United 
i^ States, especially in the great Northwest, 
have excited wonder, world wide, by their 
marvellously rapid growth and development, compara- 
tively little has been said or written of the great 
"Queen City of the Lakes," Buffalo. 

Its increase of population within the last decade has 
been equalled by few, and excelled by none, and its 
growth and improvement in all other respects that go 
to make up a teeming, vigorous and thriving city, has 
been correspondingly rapid. 

Unlike many of our cities of rapid growth, owing 
their prosperity to some one cause, as the discovery of 
a gas, or oil well, which may fail, or the construction of 
a railroad, which may not rtceive anticipated patronage, 
thereby causing a decline of values, rapid as their 
former advancement, Buffalo, by reason of her geo- 
graphical position at the foot of the great chain of inland 
lakes, midway on the only natural and unchangeable 
thoroughfare between that "wonderland," the north- 
west, and tidewater, and to other natural causes which 
are enduring, will last even as long as the waters of the 
beautiful lake, upon the borders of which she is built, 
go thundering over the majestic " Falls of Niagara." 
Few people abroad, and possibly many within her own 
boundaries, have more than a limited conception of the 
advantages offered here in real-estate transactions. 

For the purpose of showing its desirability as a place 
in which to reside, to make investments, or engage in 
business pursuits, we have at no inconsiderable pains and 
expense gathered from reliable sources the following 
statistics, which will enable one to form some idea of 
the innumerable inducements here presented to capita- 
lists, and all who wish to avail themselves of the benefits 
afforded by this city of marvellous present advantages, 
and of unrivalled future prospects. 

I. The population of Buffalo is now 270,000, an 
increase of seventy-five per cent, in ten years. 



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